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A Tampa-based company plans to begin offering flights next spring from BWI-Marshall Airport to Cuba, where travel has been restricted since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro took power and nationalized U.S.-owned businesses.

But visitors shouldn't count on buying tickets solely to explore the island's beaches.

"You cannot go to Cuba for what they call tourism," said William Hauf, president of Island Travel & Tours Ltd., which announced plans for the flights Friday.

The Island Travel trips are considered charters, though they will operate at fixed times on Wednesdays much like scheduled airline flights. And federal rules limit passengers to...

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